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31-05-2022, 07:20 AM
By TRAVIS LOLLER
today
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 2013, the first of more than 200 workers who labored to clean up the nation’s worst coal ash spill filed a suit against the contractor, blaming Jacobs Engineering for illnesses they believe were caused by exposure to heavy metals and radioactive particles in the ash. Nearly a decade later, not a single case has made it through the court system.
As the cases drag on, dozens who believed their work for the contractor made them sick have died.
They include people like Ansol Clark
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He died last year from a rare blood cancer that he believed was caused by exposure to the ash.
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The law requires anyone pursuing claims for exposure to silica or mixed dust to file a doctor’s report concluding that the exposure is a “substantial contributing factor” to the patient’s illness.
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they must also show the worker was exposed to the dust for at least five years. Workers with lung cancer are subject to the five-year provision too and additionally must show that their cancer was diagnosed at least 10 years after their first exposure to the dust.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-tenn...40b1989ad1
today
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 2013, the first of more than 200 workers who labored to clean up the nation’s worst coal ash spill filed a suit against the contractor, blaming Jacobs Engineering for illnesses they believe were caused by exposure to heavy metals and radioactive particles in the ash. Nearly a decade later, not a single case has made it through the court system.
As the cases drag on, dozens who believed their work for the contractor made them sick have died.
They include people like Ansol Clark
......
He died last year from a rare blood cancer that he believed was caused by exposure to the ash.
......
The law requires anyone pursuing claims for exposure to silica or mixed dust to file a doctor’s report concluding that the exposure is a “substantial contributing factor” to the patient’s illness.
......
they must also show the worker was exposed to the dust for at least five years. Workers with lung cancer are subject to the five-year provision too and additionally must show that their cancer was diagnosed at least 10 years after their first exposure to the dust.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-tenn...40b1989ad1
